In the past 6 months, 1077 new packages were added to the CRAN package repository. 113 packages were unarchived and 331 were archived. The following shows the growth of the number of active packages in the CRAN package repository:
On 2021-12-31, the number of active packages was around 18650.
Changes in the CRAN Repository Policy
The Policy now says the following:
- You can check that the submission was received by looking at https://CRAN.R-project.org/incoming/.
- A package showing issues for
macos-arm64or an ‘M1mac’ additional issue should be checked using the macbuilder service prior to re-submission.
CRAN package submissions
During the last half of 2021 (July 2021 to December 2021), CRAN received 12256 package submissions. For these, 21622 actions took place of which 14232 (66%) were auto processed actions and 7390 (34%) manual actions.
Minus some special cases, a summary of the auto-processed and manually triggered actions follows:
| archive | inspect | newbies | pending | pretest | publish | recheck | waiting | |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| auto | 2748 | 2722 | 2577 | 0 | 0 | 3899 | 1362 | 924 |
| manual | 2760 | 102 | 336 | 464 | 91 | 2797 | 671 | 169 |
These include the final decisions for the submissions which were
| action | archive | publish |
|---|---|---|
| auto | 2586 (21.5%) | 3336 (27.8%) |
| manual | 2728 (22.7%) | 3351 (27.9%) |
where we only count those as auto processed whose publication or rejection happened automatically in all steps.
Interestingly, for the first time in CRAN’s history there was a decrease in the number of submissions:
| Year | 1st half | 2nd half |
|---|---|---|
| 2018 | NA | 10259 |
| 2019 | 13218 | 12938 |
| 2020 | 17598 | 13510 |
| 2021 | 16339 | 12256 |
CRAN mirror security
Currently, there are 101 official CRAN mirrors, 83 of which provide both
secure downloads via https and use secure mirroring from the CRAN
master (via rsync through ssh tunnels). Since the R 3.4.0 release,
chooseCRANmirror() offers these mirrors in preference to the others
which are not fully secured (yet).
CRAN Task View Initiative
To facilitate the maintenance of established CRAN task views as well as the proposal of new ones, a new improved and much more transparent workflow has been established. It is overseen by the newly established CRAN Task View Editors: Roger Bivand, Dirk Eddelbuettel, Rocío Joo, David Meyer, Heather Turner, Nathalie Vialaneix, and Achim Zeileis. More details can be found in the corresponding organization on GitHub: https://github.com/cran-task-views/ctv/. Currently, the focus is on the transition of the established task views to the new workflow which also involves the archival of some task views which turned out to be too broad to be maintainable (Graphics and SocialSciences). Also, the gR task view has been renamed to GraphicalModels. When the transition is completed, a more detailed introduction with further details and instructions will be published soon.
New packages in CRAN task views
- Bayesian
- Cluster
- Databases
- DifferentialEquations
- Econometrics
- Finance
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DOSPortfolio, HDShOP, RTL, bidask, etrm, greeks, ichimoku, monobin, strand.
- FunctionalData
- Hydrology
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HBV.IANIGLA, NPRED, RavenR, WASP, hydropeak, hydrotoolbox, metR, nhdR, nhdplusTools, prism.
- MachineLearning
- MetaAnalysis
- MissingData
- ModelDeployment
- NumericalMathematics
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FixedPoint, GramQuad, bignum, rim.
- OfficialStatistics
- Optimization
- Psychometrics
- ReproducibleResearch
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Require, gt, huxtable, makepipe, pharmaRTF, r2rtf, reproducible, styler, unrtf.
- Robust
- TimeSeries
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BGVAR, GlarmaVarSel, STFTS, brolgar, esemifar, mrf, mvLSW, profoc, rdbnomics, synthesis, tsBSS, tsdb, tssim, uGMAR, ugatsdb.
(* = core package)
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